bug in guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm

bug in guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm

[Vivek raghunathan]

All,

As part of a networking project I am working on, I had to port forward
our existing codebase from Guile 1.6 to Guile 1.8. On doing so, I
started getting errors of the form (on running):

ERROR: Unbound variable: with-load-pathname

I dug around a little, and discovered that a thread that discussed
this problem for Guile 1.6-7 with GNUCash. I am new to Guile and don't
understand this really well, but apparently, slib.scm needs to pull in
guile.init to get support for with-load-pathname. Using the same
technique worked for Guile 1.8 for my application.

I don't understand the Guile codebase well enough, and am not sure if
this has already been fixed. I am attaching a patch against
guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm v1.46 in your CVS (the branching point for
Guile 1.8).

Vivek

--- slib.scm.1.46   2006-08-10 11:01:32.000000000 -0400
+++ slib.scm    2006-08-10 11:03:26.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;;; slib.scm --- definitions needed to get SLIB to work with Guile
 ;;;;
-;;;;   Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
+;;;;   Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 ;;;;
 ;;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 ;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
 ;;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 ;;;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301 USA
 ;;;;
+
+;; forward patch GDT's 1.6.7 pkgsrc patch
+;; ref. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2005-10/msg00083.html
+;; Load slib's init routine.
+(load (string-append (assoc-ref %guile-build-info 'pkgdatadir)
+            "/slib/guile.init"))
+
 (define-module (ice-9 slib)
   :export (slib:load slib:load-source defmacro:load
       implementation-vicinity library-vicinity home-vicinity
@@ -412,4 +419,3 @@

 (define (make-exchanger obj)
   (lambda (rep) (let ((old obj)) (set! obj rep) old)))


-- 

---

*************************************
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PhD student,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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bug in guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm

[Vivek raghunathan]

All,

As part of a networking project I am working on, I had to port forward
our existing codebase from Guile 1.6 to Guile 1.8. On doing so, I
started getting errors of the form (on running):

ERROR: Unbound variable: with-load-pathname

I dug around a little, and discovered that a thread that discussed
this problem for Guile 1.6-7 with GNUCash. I am new to Guile and don't
understand this really well, but apparently, slib.scm needs to pull in
guile.init to get support for with-load-pathname. Using the same
technique worked for Guile 1.8 for my application.

I don't understand the Guile codebase well enough, and am not sure if
this has already been fixed in current - I think it hasn't. I am
attaching a patch against
guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm v1.46 in your CVS (the branching point for
Guile 1.8).

Vivek

--- slib.scm.1.46   2006-08-10 11:01:32.000000000 -0400
+++ slib.scm    2006-08-10 11:03:26.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;;; slib.scm --- definitions needed to get SLIB to work with Guile
 ;;;;
-;;;;   Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
+;;;;   Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 ;;;;
 ;;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 ;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
 ;;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 ;;;; Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301 USA
 ;;;;
+
+;; forward patch GDT's 1.6.7 pkgsrc patch
+;; ref. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2005-10/msg00083.html
+;; Load slib's init routine.
+(load (string-append (assoc-ref %guile-build-info 'pkgdatadir)
+            "/slib/guile.init"))
+
 (define-module (ice-9 slib)
  :export (slib:load slib:load-source defmacro:load
      implementation-vicinity library-vicinity home-vicinity
@@ -412,4 +419,3 @@

 (define (make-exchanger obj)
  (lambda (rep) (let ((old obj)) (set! obj rep) old)))



-- 

---

*************************************
Vivek Raghunathan,
PhD student,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Contact Details:
1012 W. Clark St #31,
Urbana IL 61801

ph: 217-766-1868 (cell)
    217-333-7541 (off)


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Re: bug in guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm

[Kevin Ryde]

"Vivek raghunathan" <vivek.raghunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I dug around a little, and discovered that a thread that discussed
> this problem for Guile 1.6-7 with GNUCash. I am new to Guile and don't
> understand this really well, but apparently, slib.scm needs to pull in
> guile.init to get support for with-load-pathname. Using the same
> technique worked for Guile 1.8 for my application.

There's a fix in the 1.6 branch that's on its way to the 1.8 branch.

For now the suggestion is to follow the slib manual if you're using
slib, which is "guile -l guile.init".


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Re: bug in guile-core/ice-9/slib.scm

[Rob Browning]

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> There's a fix in the 1.6 branch that's on its way to the 1.8 branch.
>
> For now the suggestion is to follow the slib manual if you're using
> slib, which is "guile -l guile.init".

Actually, Guile 1.8 just doesn't support SLIB yet, and I'm not sure
how soon it will.  I've been trying to fix that, and have been in a
discussion with the SLIB author about what the fix should look like,
but we haven't finished that discussion yet.

I suspect the slib.scm will look similar to the one in 1.6, but the
upstream guile.init will probably be different, given the changes in
1.8.

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